List of trial films

Following is a list of trial films, containing films which center on the legal process of a trial, usually a trial by jury.

Title	Director	Date	Actor	Actor	Miscellaneous
Judge Priest	John Ford	1934	Will Rogers
The Prisoner of Shark Island	John Ford	1936	Warner Baxter	Gloria Stuart
The Caine Mutiny	Edward Dmytryk	1954	Humphrey Bogart	José Ferrer	military court, from novel by Herman Wouk
Young Mr. Lincoln	John Ford	1939	Henry Fonda
The Return of Frank James	Fritz Lang	1940	Henry Fonda	Gene Tierney
The Paradine Case	Alfred Hitchcock	1947	Gregory Peck	Alida Valli
12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	1957	Henry Fonda	Lee J. Cobb
The Boys (1962 British film)	Sidney J. Furie	1962	Richard Todd	Robert Morley
A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann	1966	Paul Scofield	Orson Welles	from play by Robert Bolt
Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	1959	James Stewart	Lee Remick	from novel by John D. Voelker
Inherit the Wind	Stanley Kramer	1960	Spencer Tracy	Fredric March
Judgment at Nuremberg	Stanley Kramer	1961	Spencer Tracy	Maximilian Schell	military court
Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick	1957	Kirk Douglas	Adolphe Menjou	military court
The Passion of Joan of Arc	Carl Theodor Dreyer	1928	Renée Jeanne Falconetti	Eugène Silvain
The Trial	Orson Welles	1962	Anthony Perkins	Akim Tamiroff	from novel by Franz Kafka
The Wrong Man	Alfred Hitchcock	1957	Henry Fonda	Vera Miles
To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	1962	Gregory Peck	Mary Badham
The Verdict	Sidney Lumet	1982	Paul Newman	Charlotte Rampling
Town Without Pity	Gottfried Reinhardt	1961	Kirk Douglas	Christine Kaufmann	military court
King and Country	Joseph Losey	1964	Dirk Bogarde	Tom Courtenay	military court
Breaker Morant	Bruce Beresford	1980	Bryan Brown	Edward Woodward	military court
A Few Good Men	Rob Reiner	1992	Jack Nicholson	Demi Moore	military court
Rules of Engagement	William Friedkin	2000	Tommy Lee Jones	Samuel L. Jackson	military court
The Passion of the Christ	Mel Gibson	2004	Jim Caviezel	Maia Morgenstern
The Devil and Daniel Webster	William Dieterle	1941	Edward Arnold	Walter Huston
The Man Who Sued God	Mark Joffe	2000	Billy Connolly	Judy Davis
The Exorcism of Emily Rose	Scott Derrickson	2005	Laura Linney	Tom Wilkinson
The Crucible (1957 film)	Raymond Rouleau	1996	Simone Signoret	Yves Montand
JFK	Oliver Stone	1991	Kevin Costner	Kevin Bacon
My Cousin Vinny	Jonathan Lynn	1992	Joe Pesci	Marisa Tomei	Marisa Tomei won an Oscar
...And Justice for All	Norman Jewison	1979	Al Pacino	Jack Warden
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Amistad	Steven Spielberg	1997	Morgan Freeman	Anthony Hopkins
The Ox-Bow Incident	William A. Wellman	1943	Henry Fonda	Dana Andrews
The Wreck of the Mary Deare	Michael Anderson	1959	Gary Cooper	Charlton Heston
A Time to Kill	Joel Schumacher	1996	Sandra Bullock	Samuel L. Jackson
The Client	Joel Schumacher	1994	Susan Sarandon\|	Brad Renfro	from the novel by John Grisham
Presumed Innocent	Alan J. Pakula	1990	Harrison Ford	Raúl Juliá	from the novel by Scott Turow
Primal Fear	Gregory Hoblit	1996	Richard Gere	Edward Norton	from the novel by William Diehl
A Civil Action	Steven Zaillian	1998	Robert Duvall	John Travolta
Miracle on 34th Street	George Seaton	1947	Edmund Gwenn
The Trial	David Jones	1993	Kyle MacLachlan	Anthony Hopkins	novel by Franz Kafka, screenplay by Harold Pinter
Trial	Mark Robson	1955	Glenn Ford	Dorothy McGuire	from the novel by Don Mankiewicz
The Trial	Gary Wheeler	2010	Matthew Modine	Randy Wayne	from the novel by Robert Whitlow
Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer	Nick Searcy	2018	Earl Billings	Dean Cain
Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder	1957	Tyrone Power	Marlene Dietrich
In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan	1993	Daniel Day-Lewis	Pete Postlethwaite
Compulsion	Richard Fleischer	1959	Dean Stockwell	Orson Welles
Runaway Jury	Gary Fleder	2003	John Cusack	Rachel Weisz
Fracture	Gregory Hoblit	2007	Anthony Hopkins	Ryan Gosling
The Lincoln Lawyer	Brad Furman	2011	Matthew McConaughey	Marisa Tomei	from the novel by
Murder in the First	Marc Rocco	1995	Christian Slater	Kevin Bacon
Music Box	Costa-Gavras	1989	Jessica Lange	Armin Mueller-Stahl
The Last Wave	Peter Weir	1977	Richard Chamberlain	Olivia Hamnett
The Accused	Jonathan Kaplan	1988	Kelly McGillis	Jodie Foster
I Confess	Alfred Hitchcock	1953	Montgomery Clift	Anne Baxter
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing	Richard Fleischer	1955	Joan Collins	Farley Granger	fictionalized account of the Harry Kendall Thaw murder trial
Knock on Any Door	Nicholas Ray	1949	Humphrey Bogart	John Derek
Boomerang!	Elia Kazan	1947	Dana Andrews	Jane Wyatt
Suspect	Peter Yates	1987	Cher	Dennis Quaid
The Trial of Joan of Arc	Robert Bresson	1962	Florence Delay	Jean-Claude Fourneau
The Tattered Dress	Jack Arnold	1957	Jeff Chandler	Jeanne Crain
The Rainmaker	Francis Ford Coppola	1997	Matt Damon	Danny DeVito
Q & A	Sidney Lumet	1990	Nick Nolte	Timothy Hutton
The Judge	David Dobkin	2014	Robert Downey Jr.	Robert Duvall
Flash of Genius	Marc Abraham	2008	Greg Kinnear		fictionalized account of the Robert Kearns patent case against the Ford Motor Company
Murder in the First	Marc Rocco	1995	Kevin Bacon	Christian Slater
Town Without Pity	Gottfried Reinhardt	1961	Kirk Douglas	Christine Kaufmann	theme song sung by Gene Pitney, lyrics by Ned Washington, music by Dimitri Tiomkin,